Some of the most recognized brands in the tech industry, including Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, YouTube, and Reddit, banned the United States’ sitting President from using the digital platforms. Donald Trump suddenly lost tribunes that gave him access to more than one hundred million followers. Initially, the bans were supposed to last until Joe Biden’
You’ve done your due diligence, practice good security hygiene and have the best security tools available. Now, your security posture is strong. But, your plan is only as good as your employees, and they may be letting you down when it comes to being ready for social engineering.
While employees clicking on phishing links still presents a
CyberNews researchers analyzed data from multiple social platforms like Parler, Twitter, Facebook, MeWe’s to compare data policies.
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Alternative social media platforms, also known as “alt” or alt-tech, were catapulted into the spotlight near the end of
This year, there’s a whole new meaning to “there’s no place like home for the holidays.” With COVID-19 cases spiking, many of December’s festivities will be celebrated at a distance to protect the health of our family and friends. Though the observance of these holidays may look a bit different this year, there is still plenty to celebrate.
Gather your famil
Black Friday 2020 promises to be somewhat different from years gone by thanks to COVID-19. The annual surge of in-store chaos and trolley dashes isn’t compatible with social distancing, and so retailers will be looking to drive shoppers online.
Friday 27th November is when things kick off this year, and yet some aspects will be radically different. If you
Despite COVID-19, soccer season is slowly ebbing its way back into daily life around the world. It’s also sneaking back onto TV screens in the form of huge-budget video games. Step up to the plate, FIFA 21.
FIFA games: the football juggernaut
The FIFA series is an absolute monster in terms of sales, clocking in at around 280 million copies across
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The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its
<a href="https://docs.apwg.org/reports/apwg_trends_report_q2_2020.pdf">Phishing Activity Trends Report</a> analyzing phishing attacks and identifying theft techniques reported by its members for Q2 of 2020. Key highlights of the report include a significant increase in wire
Nowadays, people are excited to share their personal lives with the rest of the world. In most cases, when you create a profile on popular social media networks such as Instagram and Facebook, the default setting would be for your information to be public. This would allow anyone in the world to see the content that you share, see some of your activity on th
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Multiple Individuals Charged for Twitter Hack
Three people were charged with last month’s Twitter
hack, which generated over $100,000 in bitcoin by hijacking high-profile
accounts. Of the 130 accounts used to spread the Bitcoin scam, major names
included Elon Musk and Bill Gates, who have been portrayed in similar past scams.
The FB
TikTok, one of the most downloaded apps of 2019 in the USA, is on the brink of getting banned due to security concerns. President Trump initially stated that the app would be prohibited within 48 hours. However, Microsoft stepped in and expressed interest in purchasing it instead. The President then delayed the decision to get rid of the Chinese app for good
In recent news retail giant Amazon sent a memo to employees telling them to delete the popular social media app TikTok from their phones. In the memo it stated that the app would pose a security risk without going into details. Later the memo was withdrawn without an explanation except that it was sent in error. Are we curious yet, my dear Watson?
What is
Last week hundreds of millions of people saw fraudulent tweets coming from some of the most influential Twitter users. The messages sent in the social network were inviting hundreds of millions of followers to send cryptocurrency funds to a Bitcoin address. The promise was that the celebrities would send back double the funds. So, users were expecting to tra
On Wednesday, July 15, the Twitterverse was ablaze with what Twitter itself has described as a “coordinated social engineering attack” that was launched at around 4pm ET. The outcome of this breach was compromised Twitter accounts of many well-known people and organizations, including Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, former President Barack Obama, Joe Bide
The social media platform Twitter suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, multiple high-profile accounts were hacked.
Social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden,
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs, we took an in-depth look at card skimmers targeting ASP sites, we released another episode of Lock and Code exploring the Internet of Things, and we dug into a Mac mystery. We also examined some pre-installed malware, and put out a threat spotlight on some customized ransomware.
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